U.S. pullout from Iraq would benefit Iran — and ISIS — experts warn by SeanDNaylor
As the Iraqi and U.S. governments sent contradictory messages Tuesday about whether and when U.S. troops would be pulling out of Iraq, and the Pentagon reported the launch of “more than a dozen ballistic missiles” from Iran targeting U.S. forces, retired military officers familiar with the region said the only winners from an American withdrawal would be Iran and the Islamic State.
President Trump on Tuesday said the United States had no immediate intention to leave Iraq. Earlier he had said that if the military does leave he would demand compensation from Iraq for an air base it has built there. Under a worst-case scenario, the Iraqi state, precariously balanced among Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish political parties, could descend into civil war.
The retired senior military officer noted that Iraqi President Barham Salih had been quoted describing the United States as an “ally” and Iran as a “neighbor” in a recent New Yorker article. “I think that’s a really important distinction,” he said. The former military commander in Iraq compared such a scenario to what happened when the United States removed its combat forces from Iraq in late 2011, which allowed al-Qaida in Iraq to reemerge, later evolving into the Islamic State. An ISIS safe haven in Iraq would jeopardize U.S. forces and operations in Syria, according to Wilson, who now directs the Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute in Carlisle, Pa. Even if the U.S.
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